The big dance is just around the corner, whether I'm ready or not. So, since I couldn't cut soybeans today, I concentrated on keeping my priorities in line. Built a bunk bed, a wader hanger, and knocked out a few odds & ends.

ByersFarm wrote:That room looks a lot different than when I was there. Well done.

Thanks, brother. I'm getting close, but out of time. Gonna leave a few doors un-hung & a few corner in-trimmed. It'll be done enough to get us through this season, but this is clearly a 10-year project.

Right now, all I'm worried about is finishing what the weather started and ensuring that the birds have a wet spot where they can take a swim & finishing those pesky soybeans.

Looks like you've got the situation under control down there. The swarm is looking pretty healthy around your place. Go get em.

Field was holding 5,000 or so ducks. Then 15,000 snows decided to stop in for dinner. Had to run off the ducks to get the geese gone. Makes me mad at em.

I let the snows stay in there over night once three years ago. Never got to hunt that field again that season. They smashed the levees to ground level overnight and drained the field.

need some help?

Nah, that one's across the road from the compound. I just have to send a 5.56 mm through every couple of hours or so to get em motivated to keep moving. Anything more than that will back the ducks out on a more permanent basis.

ByersFarm wrote:I've long since given up on running off the snows. Oddly enough there is a correlation between goose numbers and duck numbers here.

I wish I could. That field doesn't have elevated roads around it. If they smash the levees, the show is over. Stayed after em till way past dark tonight. Full moon makes it too easy for em.

I wondered last year how you were able to keep the levees. Our pit levees won't last very long. I could enjoy life without them, but hand to God when the snows leave the ducks go with them.

I could see how that'd work. If I see a single snow in a field that matters, I run everything out of it. Wound up sending Oreo through them this evening, and I let him have at em for 30 minutes before I called him back in.